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Know how loud your neighborhood really is.

Search any NYC address: Noise, honks, and much more.

📍 90+ hours on foot, one measurement a second 👟 180+ walks since June 2026 🗺️ 4 neighborhoods, end to end
Midtown · real walk data
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New neighborhoods, new measurements, once in a while. No spam.

Not just "loud." We tell you what kind of loud.

One number is not enough. We show you all we've identified: Walked vs modelled, split by the source of the noise.

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Honking

The avenue that never sleeps vs. the quiet building a few doors down.

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General traffic

Buses, trucks and the avenues that carry them: the steady rumble a street's shape decides.

What we're measuring next

Already measured, just waiting to be added to our maps and models.

  • Street life Bars and 2am noise: Fun, but not fun if you moved in without knowing this.
  • Planes The perfect place to live, for low rent, but just under a flight path.
  • Pollution PM2.5 and VOC: Invisible, and harmful.
  • Smells This sounds like a joke, until you live next to a smelly river.

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How we know

Most noise data comes from highway sensors and 311 complaints. Ours comes from the sidewalk.

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We walk it ourselves

180+ walks since June 2026 and 90+ hours on the pavement, at one measurement a second, with a meter in hand. Nothing scraped from a sensor on a highway.

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Four neighborhoods, end to end

Brooklyn Heights-Cobble Hill, Midtown, East Harlem North and Spuyten Duyvil-Kingsbridge: nearly 24 miles on foot, 87% to 97% of the streets in each.

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The rest of the city is modelled

A model fit on those walks fills in the streets we haven't reached yet, using street width, distance to an arterial, distance to the corner, and how built-up the block is. The block card tells you which one you're looking at.

This is what a walk hands you.

A real report from real walks: 8.81 miles of East Harlem North on foot, 11,290 readings, over ten visits. Read both pages here, or open the PDF.

Open the PDF 2 pages · 229 KB

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